Perameles fasciata Gray, 1841
Eastern striped bandicoot, Eastern barred-bandicoot, Striped-backed bandicoot, New South Wales striped bandicoot, Western barred bandicoot (Travouillon & Burbidge, 2023:184), Banded perameles (Krefft, 1864:34,1866:15), Striped bandicoot (Krefft, 1864:34; Brazenor, 1950:32 [contra p. 104 (Eastern striped bandicoot)]); Banded bandicoot (Gray, 1843:95; Travouillon & Burbidge, 2023:184), thill (Murray-Darling aboriginal name) (Krefft, 1866:15), moncat (Murray-Darling aboriginal name) (Krefft, 1866:15)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Perameles bougainville fasciatus Gray, 1841; Perameles bougainville fasciata Gray, 1841; Perameles bougainvilii fasciata Gray, 1841; Perameles sobbei Price, 2002
Please note that the indigenous names for this species are wrong and need to be re-assigned to a different taxon following the elevation (from P. b. fasciata) and restriction of P. fasciata to the Liverpool Plains of New South Wales. Perameles sobbei was synonymised with P. fasciata by (Travouillon, 2023).
Conservation Status
Extinct (Burbidge, 2024)
Last record: 1846 (Travouillon & Burbidge, 2023)
Distribution
New South Wales [Liverpool Plains (historically); Wellington Caves (prehistorically)] & Queensland (prehistorically), Australia
Type locality: "Liverpool Plains, N.S.W." (Mahoney & Ride, 1988:40)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Recent specimens
Lectotype: BMNH / NHMUK 1841.1178 (designated by Thomas, 1922:128) (skin and partial skull and dentaries; subadult female) (Mahoney & Ride, 1988:40)
Other specimen/s:
BMNH / NHMUK 1847.8.12.14 (skin and skull; adult male)
Palaeontological specimens
An extensive list of material is given by (Travouillon, 2023).
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Gray, J. E. (1841). Contributions towards the geographical distribution of the Mammalia of Australia, with notes on some recently discovered species, in a letter addressed to the Author. Appendix C. In: Grey, G. (Ed.), Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-west and Western Australia, During the Years 1837, 38 and 39, Under the Authority of Her Majesty’s Government. Describing many newly discovered, important, and fertile districts, with observations on the moral and physical condition of the aboriginal inhabitants, &c., &c. T. & W. Boone, London, pp. 397-414.
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